Technical Marketing Engineer
Isovalent at Cisco · Lausanne
People × interfaces × systems
Making infrastructure work better for people.
For more than twenty years, I have tracked constraints holding teams back—opaque systems, fragile handoffs, gaps between knowing and doing—and redesigned the technical and human interfaces around them.
Explore the practice ↓IT is about people on both sides of the interface.
An interface to the work
Follow the constraint.
Each route below shows the same practice applied to a different system: find what blocks people, design the interface, make capability shareable.
2005—now
Teach the why, not just the tool.
Tools must serve people and human processes. Understanding their history, purpose, and trade-offs is what turns automation into better work.
The constant
Implementation matters.
Adoption is the test.
A well-programmed system with an unusable interface will be worked around or left behind. The goal is to give people a clear way to understand the system, act with confidence, and improve it together.
Public record
The work leaves traces.
- 20+ ↗
- years across infrastructure and enablement
- 20+ ↗
- public technical talks delivered
- 100k+ ↗
- cloud-native lab sessions supported
- 2005 ↗
- contributing to open source since
Public thinking
Teaching is part of the engineering.
More than 20 talks delivered; 19 recorded.